by DrDebugDU » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:51 pm
> Any chance this is going to break open in England, at least?<br><br>There are people in Labour who do not like it<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Labour MPs blame bombings on Iraq war<br><br>By Colin Brown and Andrew Grice<br><br>Published: 16 July 2005<br><br>The uneasy truce inside the Labour Party over the London bombings ended last night as an ex-cabinet minister and left-wing Labour MPs linked the attacks with the war in Iraq.<br><br>Left-wing Labour MPs said they would use a conference in London today to pile the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>pressure on Tony Blair to hasten the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. And Clare Short, the former cabinet minister, said in a television interview to be broadcast tomorrow that she "had no doubt" that the bombings were connected to the Iraqi conflict.<br><br>Ms Short said the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>anti-terror legislation being planned by Mr Blair</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> would act as a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists. She said it was wrong that Muslims should grow up in Britain willing to contemplate killing innocent civilians, but coupled her condemnation of the bombing with criticism of British foreign policy.<br><br>"Some of the voices that have been coming from the Government that talk as though this is all evil, and that everything we do is fine, when in fact we are implicated in the slaughter of large numbers of civilians in Iraq and supporting a Middle East policy that for the Palestinians creates this sense of double standards - that feeds anger," she said in a recorded interview for GMTV.<br><br>...<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article299456.ece">news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article299456.ece</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>